Another ‘Friends of Syria’ conference, being held seemingly every few weeks lately, has led to another pledge of more US government funding for the Syrian rebellion by Secretary of State John Kerry.
The new pledge will see another $100 million in US aid, including “non-lethal” military equipment, including body armor and night-vision goggles, being provided to the rebels.
The US is already providing training for rebels by way of a camp in Jordan, and has repeatedly offered “humanitarian aid” directly to rebel factions. They have been reluctant to provide US weapons directly, however, preferring to act as an intermediary for Saudi weapons flowing into the nation.
UN Special Envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has urged a new round of peace talks between the Assad government and the rebels, but with constant increases in aid bolstering rebels’ belief they’ll eventually prevail, there is little interest among them to actually engage in talks.
In such economical harsh time why would US government paying for something that is not certain…, meanwhile the gas prices are on the rise and Saudis being on of the oil producers get paid more.., few months back the oil prices was down and Saudis give these bandits 75million dollars.., and now they get 100million.., wonder if there is any connections here.
humanitarian aid – my ass!
Terrorists are terrorists if they bomb Americans or Syrians. The only way to stop the civil war in Syria is not to support the terrorists. Government of US is not crazy, they should know this. However they have obviously other goals then stop the war and human suffering. Or majority of Syrians who want to live their lives does not count for humans?
How about the US pledges 100 million to the American people instead, huh?